This is the reason Peter Thiel and his buddies killed Gawker. Writing about open secrets was the entire point of the website.

🚨 Ever Alvarenga, an asylum seeker, was driving to work Thursday morning when he was rear-ended by an ICE vehicle. He is still in the hospital after suffering significant injuries to his head, chest, back, & hands. [1/2]

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

“Does someone have a more chill way to describe 762,000 African deaths?” “Let’s go with messy.”

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

Frost: Bondi’s employment status doesn't matter. She could go on to be an attorney. She could be unemployed. She could go work at a restaurant. It doesn't matter. She has to be in front of the Oversight Committee on April 14th for that deposition.

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

Surprise, surprise. The party hell-bent on destroying the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental fabric of the US doesn't want experts studying "how social, economic, political, cultural and environmental forces affect the lives of people."

Totally agree with this--and also the instinct to demand it. I actually think it is doable. John Curtis (one of the people persuaded to vote for Heg) just demanded a war resolution b4 60 days. Murk supports that. And the catatrophe will become more clear in coming days.

I can't help but wonder whether Trump had DOJ unilaterally declare the Presidential Records Act null and void is to excuse destroying specific damning communications, such as involving this White House official who nixed evidence sharing on Renee Good's killing. www.startribune.com/reckoning-re...

People are overselling this: "My guess is they used detection that's passive." I did see a ... curious ... Iranian post on Xitter claiming they had used infrared (BUT BEFORE TODAY), so yeah, that may be it. I'm not sure they know yet.

fortunately I am a f'ing rainmaker for my project and despite having been DOGEd a year ago I've now raised enough private money + an internal grant to pay our part-time researcher for nearly the entire time we promised him a job on our NEH grant

How corruption works. Daddy asks for $1.5T. His top campaign donor asks for $1T. His spawn enter the defense contracting business.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments: The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.

That's why it's utterly critical to make the case that Whiskey Pete is losing the Iran War bc he's a bigot.

Cindy Nguyen at UW talking about her awesome new book, Bibliotactics. It’s open access! www.ucpress.edu/books/biblio... @cindyanguyen.bsky.social

Wait wait wait, *this* Stephen Marche?

This was written about astrophysics but it is exactly what I worry about in computer science, both in college and in helping junior engineers grow into senior.

If I were @robertgarcia.bsky.social I might just demand that Todd Blanche be subpoenaed now. That'd put his actions to silence Ghislaine more readily to hand.

And there are several cases where this will be litigated very quickly, possibly assisted by any attempt to apply this retroactively. Trump clearly USED to believe in PRA, even while violating it.

Look, we can say Trump is firing Bondi bc she didn't prosecute enough of Trump's enemies. But it is also the case that Trump is going to fire Bondi bc she (with Kash Patel's able assistance) fucked up the effort to bury the allegations that he raped and assaulted a teenager. 🧐

may this be the beginning of something

hmm

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

I don't speak coding, but it seems pretty clear that this is all enormously, hilariously bad if you do.

I once dropped an ill-advised challenge to the free-floating meme version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” line in tech discourse because I took the meme reading too seriously, so it behooves me to share this deeper context with the world tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi...

Set aside time to read this Wired unmasking of BORTAC goons. Here's a predictable detail: One of them sells testosterone supplements. Somewhere the Red Flag Nanny was caught sleeping. www.wired.com/story/border...

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

news to the enslaved!

Asheesh is exactly right. There's not enough funding for the humanities. We can argue the details, but that's the fundamental problem.

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

In light of Richard Leon's (R-!!!) opinion ordering Trump to stop his ballroom construction, Trump is confessing it is a bunker after all, which I'm very excited about, not least bc I think this may backfire. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Oof. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

It's like Seinfeld, but with MAGA

Or, to put it more bluntly: "Rich people could pay less in taxes if only women would do more unpaid labor at home."

For an article I have in the coming Cultural AI issues of Modern Fiction Studies, I made a kit for exploring 553 research articles on AI published in 2024. The kit’s topic-model & word-embedding visualizations, & word-nets of epistemic values in discourse on AI are fun. alanyliu.org/citation/kit...

This is unconstitutional. Voting is a fundamental right for every American. Illinois will keep administering free and fair elections – and what Donald Trump puts on a piece of paper will not change that.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]

I love when he accidentally tells the truth!

If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue. I don't bluff and I usually win.

Honestly cannot think of a time I knew less what was going to happen at court than I feel ahead of oral arguments on birthright citizenship tomorrow. The fact that this is getting a full hearing instead of a 9-0, per curiam, benchslap is already beyond disturbing.

I have been covering legal challenges to "conversion therapy" since 2013 and have never described this harmful, discredited practice as anything other than abusive in all its forms. My intent was to clarify that "physical interventions" is just another euphemism for abuse. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

This movement has never been about violent criminal aliens, undocumented immigrants writ large, or even immigration in general, but about the country’s changing ethnic and religious makeup. It has always been about white Christian nationalism.

I am fundamentally opposed to Polymarket, but *if* Vance gets excommunicated, I'd be willing to bet that he'll go all modern Martin Luther, renounce Catholicism, and post his own 95 Theses on X.

Again, FUCK Kristi Noem's request for privacy about her cuckold's cross-dressing. Focus on the claim that Stephen Miller is implicated in Alex Pretti's murder. emptywheel.net/2026/03/31/d...